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Cry, The Beloved Country: Differences Of The Ruled And The Rulers

... and even murder. The novel is divided into three portions, each with its own theme. Alan Paton’s story made me realized the dissimilarity between the ruled and the rulers, and the reality that when people are left with no choice and money, that stealing and murder is the only way to protect and feed their families. In the story Steven Kumalo, a black reverend, sends his son, Absalom, to Johannesburg to find his sister who's husband had gone looking for work in the mines. After a couple months, Steven became concerned since he had heard no ...

Number of words: 690 | Number of pages: 3

Summary Of "Ceremony"

... how he doesn't understand why he's there killing people that look like him, and possibly feel the same way he does. But he is there because the "white" recruiter told him that he could fly planes, and make America proud. He remembers the clash of his path between what the white man wanted and his path. Tayo became so entranced with the idea that the Japanese were like him that he started to put people he knew at home's faces on the Japanese soldiers. Tayo could not see the reason for killing the Japanese, and then when the soldier killed Ro ...

Number of words: 871 | Number of pages: 4

A Doll House By Ibsen

... he should have a perfect public image for the sake of his career and not his family, since that is what comes first in his life. This is seen when he discovers a letter from a bank that his wife, Nora, gets a loan from. He finds out that the loan was acquired illegally through forgery. She uses her father’s signature. Helmer immediately strips her of all her rights to him as his wife and to the children as their mother. He does not ask for divorce since this will not be a good public image for his career, instead he asks her to have a ...

Number of words: 870 | Number of pages: 4

The Grapes Of Wrath: Rose Of Sharon And The Starving Man

... For during the narrative, Rose of Sharon, who so often in the early chapters is a whining, selfish, immature girl, grows into a woman like her mother and cares for others first, no matter the cost. In fact, at the novel's end, each of the major characters has changed. As Warren French puts it, each has received an "education of the heart," resulting "in a change from the family's jealously regarding itself as an isolated and self-important clan to its envisioning itself as part of one vast family." Most begin like Tom, "jus' puttin' one ...

Number of words: 2090 | Number of pages: 8

The Pearl

... are working for the same person so they try to cheat Kino, but he doesn't sell the pearl. He then tries to go to the city to sell the pearl but before he can go he is attacked by someone trying to steal the pearl from Kino, Kino had to defend his self by stabbing and killing the attacker. So he has to flee the town because there are trackers comeing after him, his wife, Juana insists on going with him so they flee up to a mountain to get away from the trackers. There were three trackers , two on foot, one on horse with a rifle. ...

Number of words: 457 | Number of pages: 2

King Lear 2

... that Edmund has not forgotten or tried to get past his issues with his father and brother. Not being able to forget his problem is a major component of bitterness and Edmund clearly demonstrated this quality. Sarcasm is used powerfully to show Edmund's animosity toward his brother and other legitimate children. The word "legitimate" means authentic or genuine and its tone is usually considered to be positive. In this case, however, Edmund uses the word "legitimate" sarcastically when saying, "well, my legitimate," since he does not mean it ...

Number of words: 329 | Number of pages: 2

Wright's Black Boy: Intolerance

... are truly relevant to one another. Ignorant readers assumed that Wright's reflections on childhood and youth ended with hope and promise. Ironically, Wright actually ended his reflections on juvenility with a ephemeral indictment on the South: "This was the culture from which I sprang. This was the terror from which I fled." [Page 303] Wright characterized himself in a society of racial consternation in which he was bound to deliberately undergo. He was confronted with the nurture in which he was soon frightened to reveal. His inexper ...

Number of words: 697 | Number of pages: 3

They Shall Inherit The Earth: Loss Of Innocence

... had lost his innocence. When Michael Aikenhead was a kid, he had already lost his innocence in many ways. When Michael Aikenhead was a kid, he had beaten his step brother Dave Choate, and "rubbed his face steadily in the dirt" after he had quarreled with and refused to accept Dave. Michael Aikenhead had also lost his innocence when he was young by running away from home because of his feelings of anger towards his father for marrying Martha Choate, and taking his sister, Sheila Aikenhead, with him. Michael had not only lost his innocence ...

Number of words: 1574 | Number of pages: 6

Invisible Man: Plot Summary

... free-for-all in order for him to be allowed to give his speach that will determine wheather he will be accepted to the 'college'. He is accepted and goes through two of his years at the college uneventfully. He is ejected from the school during his junior year when the trustee who ws in his care while visiting the school fell ill and is taken to a local bar to get some alchohol. He is given seven letter of what he suposes to be recomendation to give to people in New York. He moves to Harlem and delivers the letters. He finds out that these ...

Number of words: 421 | Number of pages: 2

Heart Of Darkness And Apocalypse Now

... heart of Africa, into the jungle, his ultimate destination. Marlow is commissioned as an ivory agent and is sent to ivory stations along the river. Marlow is told that when he arrives at the inner station he is to bring back information about Kurtz, the basis of this comparison and contrast in this paper, who is the great ivory agent, and who is said to be sick. As Marlow proceeds away to the inner station "to the heart of the mighty big river…. resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving af ...

Number of words: 2186 | Number of pages: 8

Running Wild: Essay About The Novel Hiroshima

... sit on his porch and read the daily newspaper. Then, Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura was looking at his next door neighbor through her kitchen window. Fr. Wilhelm Kliensorge, a German priest, was lying on a couch in his house reading a magazine. We continue with Dr. Teru Fumi Sasaki, a surgeon, was walking down the hospital hallway carrying blood specimens. Finally, Rev. Mr. Kayo She Tanimoto, the pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, was about to put away some clothes. While these innocents civilians were carrying out there lives, yet unknown to ...

Number of words: 700 | Number of pages: 3

Raising In The Sun: Walter Younger

... of the family. Walter is an ambitious man. He has always wanted to be a rich man, but his dreams have been shot down by his family. No one believes in him. Only he does. This is wny he is the way he is. He is selfish. Always me me me. He lost all the money his family and his mother had intrusted him with. He was always thinking about himself and he lost all his money by giving it to a man who he trusted. But the man ran off with the money. But Walter finally changes. Luckily his mother and saved enough money for a house. But ...

Number of words: 192 | Number of pages: 1

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